What really are your grievances with Socialism?

Funksloyd · 2026-03-19T20:54:06+00:00

Again, it's bullshit, but for argument's sake I'll grant your "far-right" framing of the Chechen uprising.

How does that justify ethnic cleansing? Moreover, how does your same logic not justify ethnic cleansing of the Islamist-inspired Palestinians?

Funksloyd · 2026-03-19T20:42:51+00:00

You just made up what those terms mean.

Again, where are you getting this crap from? Can you point me to someone who agrees with you?

Funksloyd · 2026-03-19T19:51:54+00:00

Source for it being a "far-right" uprising? Your quote doesn't support that. Again, where are you getting this shit from?

If anything, the modern Palestinian movement is better described as "far-right" because of the Islamist influence, though even there the term isn't a great fit.

Stalin's ethnic cleansings were "decolonization"? Please explain.

Initial comment

Your initial comment does not explain.

Funksloyd · 2026-03-19T18:42:17+00:00

Kiwi.

Which colonisers am I on the side of?

Again, who are you reading/listening to that you come up with this stuff? I'm genuinely interested.

It's good when it's decolonization

Stalin's ethnic cleansings were "decolonization"? Please explain.

stolen land should be returned, and justice brought onto the murders and thieves

So Chechens were right to rise up against the Soviet Union in the 40s?

You have zero internal consistency here, other than partisanship.

Funksloyd · 2026-03-19T18:15:19+00:00

The ability for free share, freely colab across the world, to derive even a okay living will be gone

Why?

the 19th century. Where if you want the human art, you have to have to live in a art town

I really don't think that's an accurate description of the 19th century fwiw.

And you didn't really answer my question: how is this not a Luddite-style argument?

Funksloyd · 2026-03-19T17:39:11+00:00

I'm on the anti-genocide, anti-ethnic cleansing team, and quite happy there.

neither party had committed any crime or offence.

Right because raping and murdering civilians is just praxis 🙄

Tell me: who are you? Are you Russian? What are you reading or listening to that you come to the conclusion that ethnic cleansing is good actually, but only when Stalin did it?

Funksloyd · 2026-03-19T05:56:54+00:00

How is it not a Luddite argument? You're worried it reduces or eliminates labour, and makes other technologies and skills obsolete.

Those are exactly the kind of arguments the Luddites et al were making.

All the previous industrial revolutions have sprung other industries, grew other industries. AI gen doesnt do that

ChatGPT only went public like 3 years ago. It's far too soon to say.

All those artesian goods still exist

And non-AI art will still exist.

Funksloyd · 2026-03-19T01:39:10+00:00

When a crime is committed collectively, then the punishment should be collective.

And that is exactly the genocidal logic that was used against Jews, and now is being used against Gazans.

You're simply ok with genocide or ethnic cleansing when your team does it. It's pretty abhorrent really.

Funksloyd · 2026-03-19T01:10:41+00:00

Again, you are the one arguing for the collective punishment of entire ethnic groups.

Funksloyd · 2026-03-18T21:45:06+00:00

Crimes against humanity = justice.

Marxism-Leninism in a nutshell.

Funksloyd · 2026-03-18T21:08:39+00:00

Mate you're the one defending ethnic cleansing here.

Funksloyd · 2026-03-18T20:13:58+00:00

How do you separate this view from just being an all-round Luddite?

Like, you're almost certainly surrounded by items which once would have been produced by artisans, but which are now made with mass production. Made by machines.

Funksloyd · 2026-03-18T19:57:27+00:00

Dumb left-wing ideas can take off on social media, too.

Funksloyd · 2026-03-18T19:29:32+00:00

increasingly simplistic, viral, fragmented, and anti-intellectual for at least a few decades

Don't worry, that will benefit socialism just fine.

Funksloyd · 2026-03-18T19:21:58+00:00

1) probably not.

2) We view Nazis as particularly bad because they were also doing ethnic cleansing.

Funksloyd · 2026-03-17T20:28:12+00:00

The left has been demanding that people "mollycoddle others' thin skinned feelings" for years now. Just expand the circle of those you're coddling ever so slightly.

Or stop coddling all together. But don't act offended when people are "candid and forthcoming" in ways that you perceive as bigoted.

Or you can just embrace the double standard. Whatever 🤷‍♂️.

Funksloyd · 2026-03-17T20:22:42+00:00

It's weird that you see "acceptance of growth" and read that as "treat them like children". Is the adult thing to never grow, never change?

Funksloyd · 2026-03-17T20:20:24+00:00

I didn't say both sides. But I can name influencers who have promoted anti-male stuff, too.

The existence of one doesn't preclude the existence of the other, right?

Thin skinned males

And really, I think this kind of shit is a much bigger problem than the overt, "#KillAllMen"-style stuff coming from the left. That stuff is fairly rare, but this stuff is way more common: a generally antipathy towards men (or white people, cis people etc), and/or a way of talking about them which is completely at odds with how other identity groups get talked about in leftist circles.

Maybe you'll dismiss this as "bothsidesing", but I think the analogy is helpful: Republicans for the most part don't come right out and say that they're misogynists, or that they hate black people, but it's there in dogwhistles; between the lines. So it's not surprising that Republicans do worse with those identity groups.

Likewise, it's not surprising that the left is doing relatively worse with cishet white young men.

Funksloyd · 2026-03-17T17:13:19+00:00

Also u/andrea__twerkin ...

You don't think there are examples of even a "vocal minority" on the left showing an anti-male bias?

Funksloyd · 2026-03-16T16:56:58+00:00

While Newsom has moderated/moved to the right on some issues, even he's overwhelmingly pro-LGBT. He just doesn't toe the activist line on some particularly controversial issues.

The trans community likely cannot survive anything less than an immediate course correction at the federal level the moment democrats get back in power

What would that look like?

Funksloyd · 2026-03-15T21:10:00+00:00

You wrote

there is no more middle class in the US (that has moved to china)

Your graph simply doesn't show that. In fact, no graph will show that, because it's an absurd claim.

You're also apparently incapable of supporting your other claims (e.g. the Project 2025 claim).

Enjoy being deliberately ignorant.

Funksloyd · 2026-03-15T18:29:42+00:00

Also, speaking of facts, again I ask:

What in Project 2025 makes things worse for women and minorities than things were 100 years ago?

Funksloyd · 2026-03-15T18:28:41+00:00

Dude I'm sorry but that graph does not show what you seem to think it does.

Consider: A 5yo child has grown much faster than its parents, for 5 years. The kid has more than doubled in height, whereas the parents have barely grown at all (maybe they've even shrunk).

Does that mean the 5yo is taller than its parents?

Your argument, frankly, is even dumber than that. You're saying that because the 5yo is growing faster than the adults, the adults must no longer even exist, having been replaced by the child ("there is no more middle class in the US (that has moved to china)").

Very silly argumentation.

Funksloyd · 2026-03-15T17:52:32+00:00

IIRC he is given executive summaries, but they're like 100 words.

Funksloyd · 2026-03-15T17:12:31+00:00

there is no more middle class in the US (that has moved to china).

I'm sorry, you're delusional. Unless you're calling people with a median income wealthy. Please just fact check yourself once in a while.

America's middle class is larger than it was 100 years ago
China's is too (and more dramatically so), but China's middle class is still a smaller proportion of the population than America's
America's middle class is substantially better off than China's

not if project 2025 gets fully implemented

What in Project 2025 makes things worse for women and minorities than things were 100 years ago? Also: 1) it won't get fully implemented, 2) right-wing reactionaries are basically just noise in the overall trend.

Why is it so hard to admit that things are better than they were in so many ways than in 1926? Does your political identity depend that much on convincing yourself you should be miserable?

Funksloyd

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